Shanghaiist: Video of the Day: The heartwrenching story of 16 year old Hunan student Tao Xing

guest

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:07:28 +0800

The day this type of story is reported as : "Beijing government is exposed for failure to provide proper social and medical welfare assistance for forgotten poor" is the day this nation will have reached some form of maturity and accountability to its people".

guest

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:33:13 +0800

By Western standards, yes, it is creepy for the teacher to follow the student or for the government to try to use Tao Xing as a propaganda tool. But from a Chinese perspective, his -- and especially his sister's -- story are an excellent example for the "little princes" and "little princesses" who are me-centered. Chinese people accustomed to western culture may also find the propaganda cheesy, but I bet there are plenty of Chinese people to whom the "propaganda" format is perfectly normal and a good way to reach out to them.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:22:06 +0800

nanheyangrouchuan (comment number 4), generally agree with you here. The kid has done (is doing) a great job in a no doubt difficult situation and for the CCP to take advantage of this for its own ends is disgraceful. And yes i noticed the mention of "the chinese race" too. Not a good sign.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:15:58 +0800

feed the useless bitch to the lions. then she'd be useful for something.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:50:14 +0800

EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM Thursday, July 19, 2007 China official's closed meetings with candidates' advisors raise eyebrows A senior Chinese government official's closed meetings with top foreign policy advisers to leading U.S. presidential candidates have come under fire from critics of U.S. policy towards China. China's Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo. AFP China's Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo met on June 19 with advisers to Democrats candidates, including New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. He also met Republicans including Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Washington Post reported June 28. "United Front tactics at their best - getting Americans to adopt the habit of receiving lectures from PRC officials on how to limit the scope of American interests," said Richard Fisher, a China specialist with the International Assessment and Strategy Center, noting that such interaction is a "massive mistake" on the part of the candidates. Conservative critics of China said the move appears to be a pre-emptive influence effort by Beijing, which was caught funneling cash into the 1996 reelection campaign of President Bill Clinton and also sought to influence the Bush administration through FBI double agent Katrina Leung. The Dai meeting was arranged by former Clinton administration Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre. Others involved in arranging the discussions were former Carter administration National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Reagan administration Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci. The campaign aides included former CIA general counsel Jeffrey H. Smith, representing the Clinton campaign; former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, representing Obama; former State Department official Derek Chollet, representing Edwards; former State Department policy planning chief Mitchell B. Reiss, representing Romney; McCain's national security adviser Randy Scheunemann; and Antony J. Blinken, staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an adviser to Biden. "This deserves close watching," Fisher said." nanheyangrouchuan

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:55:33 +0800

It sounded like the sister made the sacrifice of working to support her brother's schooling.. sounds like the sister is the bigger hero to me...

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:27:16 +0800

Sick and typical of the government to use this for their own gain i.e. to have a controlled and docile young population of robots. And to make it "Chinese" and "communist", when indeed the government gave next to nothing to the family. But I doubt any newspaper will say that in the land of the robots.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:02:42 +0800

guest above me should take his epilepsy pills...but man, less talk and more money to the kid would be great.

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:00:42 +0800

These must be Chinese posters to have such callous and jealous attitudes. The kid ought to get a free ride through university as long as he passes the gao kao. Did the sister just ditch them or is she sending back money? That's a great humanitarian story that has been twisted into sinister, demonic CCP propaganda geared towards "the motherf*rland" and "traditional values". Is that all the media and the gov't can provide for this kid? How about a new apartment? How about a visiting nurse or caretaker? And don't gloss over the mention of "the chinese race". "Repay the nation"? What has China done for this kid? He is doing this 110% on his own. I'll tell you where real charity money is going to come from, non-chinese churches in China will have big collections for this kid and that is the only real help he'll get. Give this kid and his mom a green card. He'll be a star on CNBC inside of 5 years. Useless, scrubby, degenerate, bad China. nanheyangrouchuan

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:24:46 +0800

I went through a lot of sanitary napkins at that age.

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:20:27 +0800

Good god. Whose fucking business is it that the kid buys sanitary napkins?

guest

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:43:48 +0800

That teacher is a fucking creep. I hope he got arrested.